WiiM Home App v3.0.0 Update - Nov 8, 2024

Please review the app update release notes below. If you encounter any issues, feel free to reach out to us.

iOS Release Version
v3.0.0

What's New:

1. Dark Theme with Accent Purple: Enjoy a sleek Dark Theme with purple accents for improved focus and readability.
2. “More” Tab Update: Renamed the “Settings” tab to “More” for easier navigation and to reduce confusion with device settings.
3. Persistent Group Support: Quick multi-room audio setup and synchronization for seamless group playback (available in the next firmware update).
4. Smart Preset (Beta): Customize preset buttons for OUTPUT, VOLUME, EQ, URL, and SHUFFLE settings (coming in the next beta firmware).
5. Plex Enhancements: New support for Plex Presets, Recently Played, Search, and artist-specific track display.
6. Room Correction Improvements: Save and access EQ settings from Room Correction, with an option to disable them directly from the EQ page.
7. Two Analog Clock Faces for WiiM Ultra: Choose from two new clock faces for the WiiM Ultra (available in the next firmware update).
8. USB Disk Ejection: Manual USB ejection now supported (available in the next firmware update).

Bug Fixes:

1. General Performance Enhancements: Various performance improvements and bug fixes for a more stable app experience.

Android Release Version (Currently under Google Play Review)
v3.0.0

What's New:

1. Dark Theme with Accent Purple: Enjoy a sleek Dark Theme with purple accents for improved focus and readability.
2. “More” Tab Update: Renamed the “Settings” tab to “More” for easier navigation and to reduce confusion with device settings.
3. Persistent Group Support: Quick multi-room audio setup and synchronization for seamless group playback (available in the next firmware update).
4. Smart Preset (Beta): Customize preset buttons for OUTPUT, VOLUME, EQ, URL, and SHUFFLE settings (coming in the next beta firmware).
5. Plex Enhancements: New support for Plex Presets, Recently Played, Search, and artist-specific track display.
6. Room Correction Improvements: Save and access EQ settings from Room Correction, with an option to disable them directly from the EQ page.
7. Two Analog Clock Faces for WiiM Ultra: Choose from two new clock faces for the WiiM Ultra (available in the next firmware update).
8. USB Disk Ejection: Manual USB ejection now supported (available in the next firmware update).
9. Amazon Music Update: Enhanced responsiveness when accessing Artist or Album details in Track More Options.

Bug Fixes:

1. Artwork Display Issue: Resolved an artwork display problem for smoother visual consistency.
2. General Performance Enhancements: Various performance improvements and bug fixes for a more stable app experience.

 

[adias]

 

[Mr Ee]

I don't recall seeing the bottom clock before!
(But I'm on a beta firmware for the ultra, and a beta app.)
I see it allows time travel too.

 

[Smartplug]

And....?
Have you switched it back yet?

Haha, indeed I switch to the old clock.

 

[Smartplug]

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The new analog did not made any appeal to me so I just stick the first one the colorful digital.

 

[Aha]

Thee is also a new digital clock

 

[Maurizio]

All this waiting for the new clocks and.......in the end a big frustration. The two analog ones completely useless. From a certain distance they become confused. Especially the one with the steel-like edge.
The digital one would not be bad, but it has such white numbers that I fear that, remaining on for a long time, it could damage/burn the pixels of the screen. It would have been better to have the numbers, for example, in a light blue color. Do not tell me to lower the brightness, which I have automatic, because the Meter would also become less bright.
Conclusion? I quickly went back to the old clocks.
Too bad, I appreciate the effort of WiiM, but it seems to me to have been a waste of time.
Let's hope for the best if and when more Meters appear.

 

[hgo58]

I think WiiM has misunderstood what kind of information we need on the Ultra display. They are implementing toys while we ask for professional display of audio data and some simple, nondisturbing, standby clocks.

The new white clock with a choice of color and brightness would be all that is needed for standby.

A useful VU meter, a frequency display (spectrum analyzer) and a graphic volume dB display would also be nice for the active "now playing".

 

[hgo58]

I don't recall seeing the bottom clock before!
(But I'm on a beta firmware for the ultra, and a beta app.)
I see it allows time travel too.

Strange that it have the date information twice instead of being centered.

 

[pieterv1]

Thee is also a new digital clock

This is the one!

 

[lopatinasndlopatin]

Nice work.
Please make just simple white accent, like most ios apps have. Purple is nice, but why purple? Or green? What do they mean? White accent is the most neutral. It will look cleaner.
One more. Please, make service button in Favorites works always. I press Qobuz button (in my case) and it works perfectly, but when I open the app every new time I have to press it again. Thank you

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

4. Smart Preset (Beta): Customize preset buttons for OUTPUT, VOLUME, EQ, URL, and SHUFFLE settings (coming in the next beta firmware).

It'll be interesting to see how this works.

Please let the option to have the sub in or out be included.

 

[Burnside]

As it stands just now, rather than being a standalone profile as you and others have proposed in the past (and as I recently mocked up in my thread 'Saved settings/ profiles’), it’s tied to preset content e.g. if you already have a preset to play a playlist, you can edit that preset to also set its audio output, volume, EQ, shuffle/repeat and play duration. They’re hoping to add “Input Preset and group playback” to the beta sometime this week.

I’m sure they’re open to adding other settings such as use of the sub - for example, it looks like they’ll take on my suggestion to include fixed volume on/off as well as just the simple volume setting they already had.

 

[slartibartfast]

As it stands just now, rather than being a standalone profile as you and others have proposed in the past (and as I recently mocked up in my thread 'Saved settings/ profiles’), it’s tied to preset content e.g. if you already have a preset to play a playlist, you can edit that preset to also set its audio output, volume, EQ, shuffle/repeat and play duration. They’re hoping to add “Input Preset and group playback” to the beta sometime this week.

I’m sure they’re open to adding other settings such as use of the sub - for example, it looks like they’ll take on my suggestion to include fixed volume on/off as well as just the simple volume setting they already had.

If they are adding EQ to a preset then the volume limit associated with an EQ setting will also need to be included.

 

[BK308]

On iOS when I open the app it defaults to the device tab. Since that’s where it defaults I would like to see the input selection right there. No more going into the settings under the device.

 

[Burnside]

On iOS when I open the app it defaults to the device tab. Since that’s where it defaults I would like to see the input selection right there. No more going into the settings under the device.

Inputs are also conveniently in the Browse page (at the very bottom) where you’d make your music selection.

 

[Wiimer]

It'll be interesting to see how this works.

Please let the option to have the sub in or out be included.

I’m sure they’re open to adding other settings such as use of the sub - for example, it looks like they’ll take on my suggestion to include fixed volume on/off as well as just the simple volume setting they already had.

@Steve Woodhouse, @Burnside,

As for turning the sub on and off in the smart presets, this may be a low priority. From what I have heard, they are considering an option to turn off the sub out when using the headphone output.

 

[slartibartfast]

@Steve Woodhouse, @Burnside,

As for turning the sub on and off in the smart presets, this may be a low priority. From what I have heard, they are considering an option to turn off the sub out when using the headphone output.

I would want to turn off the sub when using the USB output which connects to my headphone amp. I can't remember if that is standard behaviour or not.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

I would want to turn off the sub when using the USB output which connects to my headphone amp. I can't remember if that is standard behaviour or not.

Apparently, you can't use the sub out with USB out (someone correct me).

 

[Burnside]

Apparently, you can't use the sub out with USB out (someone correct me).

Yeah, correct although it’s on the roadmap. Unlike @Wiimer to have a senior moment

 

[BK308]

Inputs are also conveniently in the Browse page (at the very bottom) where you’d make your music selection.

That option should pop up immediately under the device tab. I shouldn’t have to go to the browse tab at the bottom for that option.